Lara, I really and truly hear where you're coming from, I struggle with this on pretty much a daily basis. I am trying really, really hard to work on this. Doing my ABA training has been FANTASTIC as it is so much about having empathy and really good listening skills. But despite this I still feel it's something that I have to work on. I think that sometimes it comes quite naturally, but not always. I think my problem is that I can't quite figure out why that is, if that makes sense.

Good luck hun, I think the fact that you're thinking about it at all shows that you do have a level of compassion .